Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:47:09 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.wjv.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Redundancy... Message-ID: <20010219184709.A68789@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <B1A7D9973EBED3119ADD009027DC8649180CBF@mailman.thenap.com>; from drew.weaver@thenap.com on Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:03:04PM -0500 References: <B1A7D9973EBED3119ADD009027DC8649180CBF@mailman.thenap.com>
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:03:04PM -0500, Drew J. Weaver thus spoke: > On a side note, make sure that the ISP that you co-locate has gas > powered generators as well as backups protecting your servers, > or it wont really do you much good to have it hosted out of some > guy's basement =) Gas powered generators are typically on the small side. Serious generators are typically diesel. To me the best way is to find an ISP who is co-located inside a carrier [we've done that with our ISP], and rely on humoungous UPS and the 1MW+ Cat generators. Not the cheapest but IMO the best. Prices aren't the cheapest - but not that bad either. eg a 1 RU server with 1.5Mbit guaranteed bandwith on our 100MB uplink to the OC192 - is $850 month. It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish and how critical the servers are. > This may or may not be an option, but segregate the resources that > much be live 24x7 (probably not your office client server > applications) and co-locate those. Don't bother having a local copy > of them since it is probably just as easy to update the content at > your co-located site. > > Then the only thing you keep local is your interoffice lcient server > stuff shich if the building goes down, nobody is live to use anyway. > We would want to co-locate 4-5 boxes (all FreeBSD & 1 NT). One > box is a DB server (MySQL) and the others are web servers. We > currently are no co-locating. All of our boxes are currently under > our roof along with the bandwidth (2 T-1's). As we found out, the > biggest point of failure that we have is if there is an extended > power outage at our location. > -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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